<p class="poetry">How can you men of Moab say, &#8216;We are heroes,p> <p class="poetry">men who are mighty in battle?&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then some men from Israel&#8217;s elders came to me and sat down in front of me.

Come, let&#8217;s go down and confuse<n id="1" /> their language so they won&#8217;t be able to understand each other.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the men got up to leave,<n id="1" /> they looked out over<n id="2" /> Sodom. (Now<n id="3" /> Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)<n id="4" />

Laban replied, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather give her to you than to another man.<n id="1" /> Stay with me.&#8221;

It was also called Mizpah<n id="1" /> because he said, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> watch<n id="2" /> between us<n id="3" /> when we are out of sight of one another.<n id="4" />

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man<n id="1" /> wrestled<n id="2" /> with him until daybreak.<n id="3" />

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate<n id="1" /> of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

The <sc>Lordsc> was with Joseph. He was successful<n id="1" /> and lived<n id="2" /> in the household of his Egyptian master.

&#8220;The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us<n id="1" /> as if we were<n id="2" /> spying on the land.

<p class="bodytext">So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the <sc>Lordsc>.

And God came to Balaam and said, &#8220;Who are these men with you?&#8221;

Select wise and practical<n id="1" /> men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.&#8221;

I thought this was a good idea,<n id="1" /> so I sent<n id="2" /> twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,<n id="1" />

&#8220;Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.

Joshua said, &#8220;Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it.<n id="1" />

Boaz chose ten of the village leaders<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Sit down here!&#8221; So they sat down.

The men of Jabesh said, &#8220;Tomorrow we will come out to you<n id="1" /> and you can do with us whatever you wish.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>